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Hosea 11:2

World English Bible

They called to them, so they went from them.
They sacrificed to the Baals,
and burned incense to engraved images.

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Hosea 11:2 in other translations

The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Hosea 11:2 · American Standard Version

Hosea 11:2 in context

  1. 1“When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
    and called my son out of Egypt.
  2. 2They called to them, so they went from them.
    They sacrificed to the Baals,
    and burned incense to engraved images.
  3. 3Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
    I took them by his arms;
    but they didn’t know that I healed them.
  4. 4I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;
    and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
    and I bent down to him and I fed him.